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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Falling Action
Foil
Nonfiction
Rhythm
2. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Subject
Setting
Sestet
Satire
3. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Suspense
Folklore
Irony
Octave
4. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Paradox
Anapest
Closed Form
Foil
5. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Narrator
Allegory
Narrative Poem
Subject
6. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Tone
Symbol
Complication
Epiphany
7. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Dactyl
Foot
Narrator
Parallelism
8. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Cliche
Couplet
Aubade
Ode
9. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Legend
Verbal Irony
Audience
Foot
10. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Folklore
Nonfiction
Audience
Verbal Irony
11. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Reversal
Aubade
3rd Person (Limited)
Alliteration
12. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Metaphor
Theme
Fiction
Assonance
13. The main character of a literary work.
Legend
Climax
Repetition
Protagonist
14. A short saying with a moral.
Free Verse
Aphorism
Allegory
Situational Irony
15. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Parallelism
Dactyl
Repetition
Verbal Irony
16. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Syntax
Epigram
Conceit
Motif
17. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Dialogue
Pyrrhic
Tone
Reversal
18. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Motif
Legend
Foil
Anapest
19. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Rhyme
Aside
Tone
Foreshadowing
20. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Metaphor
Flashback
Paradox
Oxymoron
21. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Aphorism
Spondee
Rhythm
Elision
22. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Satire
Dramatic Irony
Rhyme
Diction
23. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Theme
Meter
Rhythm
Synecdoche
24. What a story or play is about.
Rhyme
Subject
Falling Meter
Assonance
25. A character struggles against some outside force.
Symbol
External Conflict
Pyrrhic
Ballad
26. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Spondee
Oxymoron
Scenes
Narrative Poem
27. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Parallelism
Satire
Epic
28. The person who 'tells' the story.
Sestina
Figurative Language
Symbol
Narrator
29. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Caesura
Alliteration
Foot
Paradox
30. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Falling Action
Suspense
Catharsis
Figurative Language
31. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Theme
Antagonist
Apostrophe
3rd Person (Omniscient)
32. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Mood
Protagonist
Closed Form
Elegy
33. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Cliche
Elegy
Point of View
Denotation
34. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Iamb
Falling Meter
Suspense
Personification
35. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Closed Form
Iamb
Epigram
Oxymoron
36. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Quatrain
Exposition
Climax
Assonance
37. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Elegy
Octave
Synecdoche
Foreshadowing
38. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Image
Verbal Irony
Falling Action
Rhythm
39. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Couplet
Simile
Fiction
Recognition
40. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Conflict
Myth
Couplet
Aside
41. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Comic Relief
Figurative Language
Metonymy
Narrator
42. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Understatement
Aside
Elegy
Connotation
43. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Characterization
Ballad
Denouement
Lyric Poem
44. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Stanza
Free Verse
Plot
Epic
45. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Dramatic Irony
Subplot
Elision
46. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Nonfiction
Literal Language
Enjambment
Understatement
47. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Meter
Tercet
Rhyme
3rd Person (Omniscient)
48. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Iamb
Author's Purpose
Image
Syntax
49. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Elegy
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Tercet
50. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Denotation
Exposition
Sestet
Catharsis